Scenes from the Journey: Give It All Away

Sunday, January 27, 2019

It isn't as easy as it once was to give everything away. Look around at the muchness of stuff.

You fill your life with it

and then seek to simplify

by foisting it all onto others.

When the entire populace is overburdened

with things,

who will volunteer to take what you are now so eager

to give away?

Best to leave.

Start over with nothing

but redwing blackbirds

shot like arrows from near copse

to far copse across the bright green meadow.

Let that sight suffice,

but you can also take in

the sound effect

of their trills and whistles when they light.

Or hearken to the enthusiasms of the robin

at the tip-most bough of the maple.

That song alone is worth it all.

Start with these and let the rest go.

Scenes from the Journey